Özet:

The general purpose of this research is to determine the level of relationship between the perception of the work burden of class teachers who work in the official primary schools associated with the Ministry of Education in Turkey and their professional extinction. The research is in the relational scan model. The target universe of the research is made up of 1475 class teachers in the districts of Atakum, Canik and İlkadım, located in the center of Samsun province in the 2017-2018 educational year. The study includes 329 teachers in these districts. In the collection of research data, the Personal Information Form, the Teacher's Workload Perception Scale and the Teacher's Professional Exhaust Scale were used. The research has found that teachers' work burden is not heavy and their occupational extinction is low. Depending on gender, civic status and professional age variables, both teachers' perceptions of workload and professional exhaust are not significantly different. According to the age variable, teachers' perceptions of workload are not different, but their occupational extinction shows a significant difference. Teachers in the age group of 41-50 are more professionally exhausted than teachers in the other age groups. It appears that there is a meaningful, positive and medium-level relationship between the perception of the workload in both the total and the lower dimensions and the occupational extinction. The highest relationship with the perception of workload is seen in the lower dimension of "physical and emotional exhaustion" while the lowest relationship is seen in the lower dimension of "the emotional exhaustion and failure related to the profession".

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